Vol. V, No. 7.) Notes on Gaur and other old Places. 205 
[N.S.] 
Ill. Tae Later MusaLMAn CaPItAt. 
This is the most flourishing period of Lakhnauti, its Augustan 
age, in which period were constructed the 
best and the finest remains now existing. 
Riyaz states that the capital was removed back to Gaur by 
Sultan Jalalu-d-din in 812 H.! The date 
Capital again in 860H. cannot be correct, for Jalilu-d-din did not 
come to the throne before 817 H. He 
could not have removed the capital as none of his coins shows 
the mint Lakhnauti and most show Firozaibad ; while the coins 
of his son and his son’s successor Mahmid (I) also show Firoza- 
bad. The Riyaz itself states that he and his son lie Sa » 
e 
Later Musalman. 
Panduai, which could hardly have been the case, i 
carried out the important measure of removing the seat of 
government. I think it is more likely that this renioval took 
place in the time of Mabmid Shah (I), towards the end of his 
rule. His-extant coins show Firozibid up to 858 H.,” after which 
none of his has been found to bear that place-name; and this 
mint disappears altogether from the coins of subsequent reigns. 
Furthermore the earliest remains found in Gaur with a date 
were those of a bridge erected in 862 H., in Malmiud’s reign ; 
and probably the Kotwali gate, half-a-mile south, is a little 
earlier. Hence 860H. has been taken as an approximate date 
for the removal. 
The transfer is largely connected with the physical changes 
of the locality. After much fluctuations, the Ganges seems to 
have found a comparatively stable course on the west of the 
city, and its floods probably raised the level of the city on its 
eastern part. By high embankments on the east and the west, 
it became now practicable to make the city habitable ; and the 
deep stream flowing on the west must have greatly facilitated 
trade. On the other hand, the river receded from Pandua an 
made it less accessible and more unhealthy. A change in the 
Mahmid Shah L., According to Riyaz, Sultan Jalalu-d-din 
oe built a mosque, a reservoir, a tank 
1 Riyaz, transl , p. 118. 
2 For the latest Firozabad coin, 858 H., J.A.S.B., 1893, pp. 233-4. 
8 J.A.8.B., 1875, p. 289; A.S.R., xv, p. 57. 
